Excerpt from The Stowe Missal, Vol. 1: Ms. D. II. 3 in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; Facsimile The present volume contains a complete facsimile of the Irish ms. Known as the Stowe Missal, with the exception of the extracts from the Gospel of St. John which occupy the first eleven leaves. These extracts have nothing to do with the liturgical matter which follows, and there is reason to believe that they were only bound up with it for convenience. Permission to reproduce the ms. The Henry Bradshaw Society is indebted to the liberality of the Royal Irish Academy, in whose library it is now preserved. The collotype plates, which represent the exact size of the original, have been executed by the University Press, Oxford. A second volume will give the text of the Missal and of the Irish treatise on the Mass at the end of it, literally transcribed together with an Introduction and an Index of Liturgical Forms. Collotype reproductions of three pages of the extracts from St. John, and of the metal case within which the ms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.